NASA scientists spent much of July 4th working to guide an unmanned spacecraft into orbit around Jupiter, so it can begin a 20-month mission gathering data on the solar system’s largest planet. The Juno spacecraft was traveling at about 130,000 miles per hour as it approached the gaseous Jupiter, which is the fastest any human-made craft has ever traveled, said Michelle Thaller, a research scientist with the National Aeronautics and...

Source: Wall Street Journal July 04, 2016 19:13 UTC